"What I appreciate about being an artist and being a hooper are the ways in which they each attune you to your own body, how you can develop an intimacy and entire nonverbal communication with strangers. How you are constantly reminded that you do nothing alone... When You make art or play basketball you stop seeing problems and start seeing opportunities. And that is my hope with this work that these uncommon routes, these gestures become suggestions for play and opportunities to try something new." - najjak Najja Moon Uncommon Routes, 2024 Legion Park, Miami, FL Najja Moon is a Miami based artist and cultural practitioner, born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. Her visual arts practice uses drawing, text and sound to explore the intersections of queer identity, the body and movement, black culture and familiar relations both personal and communal. A preacher’s kid and daughter of musicians raised on gospel music and HBCU’s, before she committed to being an artist full time, ...